How do subscriber ages compare by gender in Chicago versus New York?


Summary

The histograms display the distribution of age faceted by gender for New York and Chicago. While the counts for Chicago are lower than the counts for New York, it can be seen that for both cities, there are more men than women riders. In New York, there are 36,625 men compared to 12,159 women. In Chicago, there are 5,159 men and 1,723 women. Both cities’ histograms are also skewed right for both men and women. It appears that most riders are between people in their early twenties to mid-thirties, regardless of city. The most frequent age for female subscribers in New York is 28 while it is 32 for male subscribers. The most frequent age for female subscribers in Chicago is 25 while it is 28 for males in Chicago.

How does the average trip duration compare by user type across different cities?



Summary

The grouped bar chart shows that across all cities in the data, customers take longer average trips than subscribers. Customers in Washington seem to take the longest trips on average, followed by New York, and then Chicago at 43.9 minutes, 36.6 minutes, and 32.2 minutes, respectively. The subscribers across all cities take similar trip duration on average at 11.4 minutes for Chicago, 12.6 minutes for New York and 12.2 minutes for Washington. This could be due to one-time customers tending to be tourists and subscribers tending to be locals using bike sharing for commuting to work, however this cannot be proven or denied based on the dataset.

How do daily and hourly usage rates compare by city?


New York

Chicago


Washington D.C.



Summary

The heatmaps show different levels of usage throughout each hour of the day by day of the week for each city. The heatmap for New York shows that the days and times with the heaviest usage are on weekdays between 7am - 9am and 5pm - 7pm. Weekends during the day also seem to be popular in New York. The day and time with the highest usage in New York is Wednesday at 5pm while the lowest usage is Tuesday at 3am.

This pattern is also mirrored pretty similarly in Chicago where the heaviest usage times are weekdays from around 7am - 8am and around 4pm - 6pm. Weekends during the day also seem to be popular. The day and time with the highest usage in Chicago is Thursday at 5pm and the lowest usage is Wednesday at 2 am. The weekday pattern could be due to professionals utilizing bike sharing to commute to and from work. The weekend patterns could be due to riders using the bikes for leisure.

Interestingly, in Washington D.C the heaviest usage times are on weekdays from around 5am - 8am, however this is not mirrored in the evening as expected. For weekends, it seems that the late night/ early morning time is the most popular. The day and time with the highest usage is Wednesday at 8am and the lowest usage is Thursday at 12am.